Jean Papire Masson la, Papirius (1544 in
Saint-Germain-Laval, Loire
Saint-Germain-Laval () is a commune in the Loire department in central France.
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– 1611) was a French humanist historian, known also as a geographer, biographer, literary critic and jurist.
Life
Masson was initially a
Jesuit
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, but left the Society.
He studied law at Angers under
François Baudouin
François Baudouin (1520 – 24 October 1573), also called Balduinus, was a French jurist, Christian controversialist and historian. Among the most colourful of the noted French humanists, he was respected by his contemporaries as a statesman an ...
around 1570. He became close to the circle of
Catherine de' Medici
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, particularly to
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, and became professor of law at Angers, where Boni was bishop. Later he was librarian to the Chevalier de Chiverny, was ''